Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840

by Peter Gran

Book Overview

This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today's readers. New historical data on eigh-teenth- and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian modernity. The similarity, too, of Egyptian history with other Mediterranean countries is much more clearly demonstrated today than when Islamic Roots of Capitalism first was published...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815605064
• ISBN13: 9780815605065
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"